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Thread ID: 77074	2007-02-25 23:49:00	An Interesting Question	SurferJoe46 (51)	PC World Chat

Post ID	Timestamp	Content	User
528169	2007-02-25 23:49:00	Has anyone ever noticed that while they are listening to a familiar song say, on a radio, that if they should happen to yawn at any particular part, the notes distort and change the pitch of the music? Did ya' ever? :confused:	SurferJoe46 (51)
528170	2007-02-26 00:07:00	It happens to any sound, no matter what, I think it is something that happens in your ears when you yawn... GRR!!!! :badpc: :badpc: Now you have made me yawn... :mad: :p	The_End_Of_Reality (334)
528171	2007-02-26 00:20:00	Your ears and mouth are connected by the eustachian tubes via the nasal cavity. I think it's supposed to be natures way of encouraging you to **** while you should be listening, but somewhere along the line the evolutionary process got broken at chippy teenagers.	Murray P (44)
528172	2007-02-26 02:33:00	From what I gather, not only does the act of opening your mouth widely affect the aural cavities, it also allows a bit of sound to reverberate in the mouth and throat, which of course affects what you 'hear'.	Greg (193)
528173	2007-02-26 05:12:00	Possibly use non-familiar songs. Hopefully you won't yawn during the playing thereof.	Sweep (90)
528174	2007-02-26 16:00:00	Oh...I understand about the mouth-throat-ear plumbing...and I don't think that's the reason for the effect... It's the note-bending that is interesting...the perceived frequencies change and the song changes to either flatten or sharpen the notes as you hear them out of the normal tuning of the music...see? The change of frequency isn't caused by hearing the music via a different pipeline or conduit....the frequencies actually shift, and that's not caused by distance or reverberations or echoes. The pitch changes....why?	SurferJoe46 (51)
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